Bruce Riley Ashford
Biography
Bruce Riley Ashford wrote Every Square Inch, and co-wrote The Gospel of Our King and The Doctrine of Creation with others.
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12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You
Christian Living
“Tony Reinke’s 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You is one of the most important little books a twenty-first-century Christian could read. Highly recommended.”
Abraham Kuyper, Conservatism, and Church and State
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In this important book, Mark Larson demonstrates that Kuyper's political thought is a fecund vein of political theory upon which American conservatives can draw. He argues convincingly that Kuyper's political thought is . . . exemplary in its promotion of religious liberty and church disestablishment, and enables the church to resist governmental tyranny of any shape, including contemporary judicial usurpation. Larson demonstrates that Kuyper's thought has enduring value for contemporary Christian political engagement. Highly recommended.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“many conservative Christians are, unfortunately, unaware of ways that cultural Christianity in North America can make it difficult for gay people to live out the traditional sexual ethic. For the sake of our Christian witness, it is critical that we identify these roadblocks to faithfulness and remove them. All But Invisible is not the first word or the last word, but it is an important word. Even if you are not persuaded on every point—as I am not—you will be grateful you read the book.”
Theology
“Smith’s Awaiting the King is a thoughtful, wise, and provocative book. In it, we are challenged to recognize certain truths that run counter to the Western tradition: that the state is deeply religious, being as it is an incubator of love-shaping practices; that the church is profoundly political, being as it is a place of public ritual centered on and led by a King; and that the church’s public theology must therefore resituate the political in light of creation and reframe it in light of eternity. Awaiting the King is not only smart but also well written and relevant to a broad range of interests, including public theology, political science, philosophy, and social ethics.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Christopher Watkin’s Biblical Critical Theory is an effervescently brilliant book, that rare volume that excels both in biblical and cultural exegesis. I was consistently challenged by Watkin’s arguments even—and especially—when I found myself disagreeing.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Emerson provides us with a most fascinating project, a New Testament theology conceived by attending to the New Testament's literary and canonical shape. I recommend Christ and the New Creation for hermeneuts, biblical theologians, and systematic theologians.”
Christian Exegesis of the Qur’an
World Religions
“Scott Bridger's Christian Exegesis of the Qur'an is a fascinating book written at the intersection of Christian theology, apologetics, and Islamic studies. The book aims to help Westerners understand and take seriously the issues that Christians are wrestling with in predominantly Muslim contexts. It will be controversial because the questions posed challenge the normativity of our Western theological frameworks. It will be helpful because there is no other book like it. Highly recommended.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Citizenship Without Illusions is the best one-stop treatment of political citizenship written by the most significant evangelical political theorist of our day. In it, Koyzis makes a case for political engagement as a divine vocation in which our allegiance to Christ is primary and our allegiance to political parties and platforms is secondary. His ability to turn complex political realities into practical frameworks for action is second to none. Highly recommended.”
Christian Living
“Your time is limited. But you live in a world where digital eye candy, viral videos, national scandals, and social media are limitless—a world that competes for every split second of your attention. And you must train yourself both to focus and to ignore. Both are gospel skills in a battle between the diversions of our present age and our citizenship in the age to come. Every generation of Christians has faced this struggle, but never in a media-dominated culture like ours. So how can we meet the challenges and avoid the pitfalls of our day? Leaning on Scripture as the lens through which we view this digital age, Tony Reinke communicates in brilliantly lucid prose a proposal for how we can glorify our unseen Savior in this world full of sensory diversions.”
Contours of the Kuyperian Tradition
Theology
“What do you get when one of the world's most masterful contemporary theologians engages in constructive and critical dialogue with one of history's most powerful and relevant theological traditions? You get Craig Bartholomew's Contours of the Kuyperian Tradition. Bartholomew's interaction with Kuyper, Bavinck, Prinsterer, Plantinga, and others is smart, accessible, and relevant to a broad range of interests, including public theology, systematic theology, philosophy, political science, education, and biblical theology. Highly recommended.”
Christian Living
“Dirty God is a well-written and grace-saturated treatment of the Christian life. The author, Johnnie Moore, is convinced that God’s grace changes everything. It changes us and it changes the world around us. Just as God was willing to get his hands dirty in demonstrating his love for us, so we can get our hands dirty in being a conduit of God’s grace for others.”
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Evangelism in a Skeptical World
Evangelism & Missions
“This is an important book. In it, one of Christianity’s smartest voices, Sam Chan, shows us how to bring our secular neighbors into a lifegiving encounter with the gospel. Highly recommended for use in universities, seminaries, and churches.”
Theology
“In this fine little volume, Morgan and Peterson provide an excellent one-stop treatment of the doctrine of sin. As we have come to expect with all of the volumes in the Theology in Community Series, Fallen treats the doctrine of sin biblically, theologically, historically, and pastorally. This text should work very nicely for undergraduate or graduate students.”
Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“A book that stands out in a crowded catalog of hermeneutics texts, Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics deserves careful attention. With characteristic erudition and lucidity, Bartholomew provides a Trinitarian Trinitarian hermeneutic that carries the reader all the way from devotional reading of Scripture to the ecclesial reception of the preached Word. The reader learns to read Scripture humbly and prayerfully, seeking not only information but also transformation by the living Christ. Along the way, Bartholomew masterfully relates biblical interpretation to biblical theology, systematic theology, philosophical hermeneutics, preaching, and the disciplines of the modern university. A unique and thought-provoking addition to the field of hermeneutics.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Practicing the King’s Economy is an extraordinarily thoughtful and well-written book urging God’s people to adopt economic practices that would transform our nations and communities. Highly recommended.”
Theology
“Ike Miller is one of the brightest young theologians in North America, as Seeing by the Light reveals. Miller draws upon Augustine and Barth, in conversation with Johannine literature, to construct a trinitarian view of illumination that accounts for the affectional, intellectual, and ethical dimensions of life. The result is a methodologically sophisticated, multidisciplinary volume that makes a significant contribution to current debates about illumination, participation in Christ, interpretation of Johannine literature, and theological method. An extraordinary volume. Highly recommended.”
The Christian Mind of C. S. Lewis
Arts & Literature
“The Christian Mind of C. S. Lewis is an extraordinary book. In it, world-class scholars from a variety of academic disciplines show the reader how to cultivate a distinctively Christian mind. The essays are well-argued and well-written, making this book profitable not only for the college classroom but also for the armchair or coffee shop. Highly recommended.”
The Future Inheritance of Land in the Pauline Epistles
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Negotiating his way through a welter of contemporary eschatological confusions, in The Future Inheritance of Land in the Pauline Epistles Miguel Echevarria argues persuasively that Paul does not spiritualize the promise of an inheritance from the OT, but instead sees it fulfilled in the new creation in which God’s people will dwell. Exemplifying biblical fidelity, cogent argumentation, and lucid communication, this is biblical scholarship at its best. Highly recommended.”
Theology
“Vern Poythress’s fine book argues a truly radical thesis: that Jesus’s lordship is as wide as creation and therefore is as wide as our everyday activities. He shows how Jesus’s saving works and Word apply to absolutely every sphere of life—to art and science, business and entrepreneurship, scholarship and education, politics and economics. Any Christian who wishes to honor the Lord Christ in the totality of his or her life should buy this book and read it immediately.”
The Outrageous Idea of the Missional Professor
Evangelism & Missions
“Paul Gould is one of the brightest young scholars in the evangelical world, and The Outrageous Idea of the Missional Professor is an excellent book which argues that evangelical institutions and faculty members need to 'revision' themselves as missional institutions and professors. I agree with Gould and recommend the book highly to leaders, administrators, and faculty members in the world of Christian higher education.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
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